Method and improvisation: Theatre arts performance techniques to further HRI in social and affective robots

Theatre Arts methodologies of improvisational humor and method performance techniques are combined for a social robot study to further the affective, relational, and social interaction between humans and robots for positive effect. The complexity of performance methodology develops authentic human social interaction and is thereby well-suited to a positive human-robot model. The analysis of this pilot research study incorporating the proposed theatre methodology approach allows innovative solutions in affective communication to be studied from a multimodal sensory perspective.